HW 41

Gomstyn, Alice. "Top Colleges Mum on Legacy Admissions." abcnews.go.com. 11/4/08. ABC News, Web. 26 Feb 2010. .
This article talks about how despite the fact the ivy league colleges are accepting less people the rate of acceptance among legacies has stayed rather consistent. Furthermore I think that this article is also trying to say that even though the legacy rate has stayed constant that doesn't mean the legacy are any less capable of doing the work.


Gasman, Marybeth. "Perspectives: A “Legacy” of Racial Injustice in American Higher Education." diverseeducation. 12/1/08. Web. 2 Mar 2010.
This article is different from the one above because in this article they discuss how legacies of wealthy and important families have caused racial descrimination within the ivy league system. Also this article shows how the financial contributions of a family to a college affect the chances of a family member beeing accepted.

Karabel, Jerome. "The Legacy of Legacies." Longview Institute. Longview Institute, Web. 2 Mar 2010. .
This article provides a brief history of legacy admissions and then talks about how universities have been forced to be much more selective with legacies forcing them to take the legacies that overpreform or come from very wealthy background

Golden, Daniel. "Admissions Preferences Given." WSJ. 13/1/03. Wall Street Journal, Web. 2 Mar 2010. In this article the author shows the parallel fight between affirmative action and legacy acceptance. In other words how legacy admission has overwelmingly favored whites and afirmative action has overmelmingly favorved minortities. Furthermore the author also shows how students at ivy league schools have been less and less in favor of legacy admission.

Cohen, Carl. "Race Preference in College Admissions." Heritage Foundation. 29.4.1998. Heritage Foundation, Web. 9 Mar 2010. .
This article published by the conserative advocacy group the Heritage foundation provides a contrast to the arguement that forced racial diversity is either morally correct or an ethic necesity. This is helpfull in my work because it helps me better understand the two sides or the spectrum.

Shagall, Yelena. "Racism Plagues College Campus." Chicago Flame. University Of Illinois, 21/1/03. Web. 10 Mar 2010. .

This article talks about how racism exits throughout the higher education system and how upcoming affirmative action cases could affect college racism. The article also talks about how despite the perception of a color neutral education system racism is still quite prevalent.

HW 40

ME. Q. What do you think is the main reason behind teachers feeling that they have to absolutley dominate the classroom?
A: I think that it's a combination of tradition and a feeling that without a feeling of fear in the class the teacher won't be respected, furthermore the domination complex seems to be more potent in female teachers.
Q: How important is studet teacher relations i determing grades?
A: Teachers are human, therefore they make personal judgements. I thI ink that if someone shows a positive attitude towards the teacher and creates a bond with him/her they are much more likely to succeed. (Participation is a nice way they like to put it)
Person 2 (student with low grades): Q. Why do you feel that you have done poorly throughout your high school career?
A. Because all of the material that we have learned in school has no relevance in my life, and because I spent so long procarstinating about how school hasn't really done anything for me so at times when I have wanted to care my work ethic hasn't been developed enough to thuroughly complete all my work.
Q. Overall do you think that teachers are fair people?
A. Some of them are but a lot of them seem that they just want to live up to societies expectations above improving the education of individual students.
Person 3 (student with high grades) Q. How have you been able to stay succesfull throughout your high school career?
A. My parents are constantly on me about doing well in school beause their true believers in the "American dream" or whatever and basically if I want to have any kind of social life I need to do well in school, furthermore I think that one thing I've been able to do well is block out all the b.s. that comes with school and try and think of the long term.
Q. Do you think that because you do well in school your social status is tainted?
A. Absolutley, especially with the "party crowd" they seem to equate good performance in school with social mediocrity.
Person 4 (adult) Q. Do you think that the public school system gives an overall fair experience to all parties involved?
A. No, I think that students get bogged down in a bureacuracy and cheap political stats while teachers are forced to teach material that they don't find interesting and their students don't value.
Q. How do you think your school experience matches up with the modern school experience?
A. I think that it's pretty much the same thing. Maybe there's more racial equality in the school system but the economic equality is just as bad if not worse. Also when I was in school there was high stakes testing but not as much from the state much more in school testing.

For this assignment what I wanted to do was compare and contrast how different prospectives feel about school. Generally the feeling that came across the strongest was that people don't feel that their learning very important information. Something that would be interesting to investigate from that would be do that many people really feel that way or is that just something that the media and people around us say. Furthermore another thing that I noticed not only in these interviews but in life is that seldom do you find a student who is inspired to do well in school just because they want to, in other words no outside pressure or circumstances in ones life that would make doing well in school a necesity.

Art Project Photos Part 2

The photos that I listed above are all people who have influenced my view of cool. Overall they all fit the mold of a masculine male who generally uses minipulation and violence to get what they want. Even though many of the people whos photos are listed aren't commonly refered to as "hip" these days I think that they all can go under a general societal view of cool. The reason being is they all fit into at least one of four very important catagories.
1. Physically fit/ Good looking
2. Relaxed, calm collected
3. Good skills with woman
4. Ocassional violent outbreaks

Art Project Photos

http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/images/bogart1.jpg

http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/AAAAAAChange06/Dean1.jpg

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/041209/142618__dogs_l.jpg

http://orgtheory.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/quentin_tarantino.jpg

http://www.mcnblogs.com/filmfatale/samjacksonpulp.jpg

http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/clinteastwood.jpg

http://michaelmanning.tv/blog/uploaded_images/inmcqueen-790331.jpg